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David Dowty

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American linguist

David Roach Dowty (born 1945^[1]) is a linguist known primarily for his work insemantic andsyntactic theory, and especially inMontague grammar andCategorial grammar. Dowty is a professor emeritus oflinguistics at theOhio State University, and his research interests mainly lie in Semantic and Syntactic Theory,Lexical semantics andThematic roles,Categorial grammar, and Semantics ofTense andAspect.

Life

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David Dowty received his PhD from theUniversity of Texas at Austin, with a thesis supervised by Robert Wall andEmmon Bach on the temporal semantics of verbs.^[2]

Dowty was editor-in-chief of the journalLinguistics and Philosophy from 1988 to 1992, and associate editor ofLanguage. For several years he was chairman of the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University. A one-day symposium was held at theUniversity of Groningen in honour of his sixtieth birthday, subsequently published asTheory and Evidence in Semantics.^[2]

Major Publications

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Word Meaning and Montague Grammar: the semantics of verbs and times in generative semantics and in Montague's PTQ. Dortrecht, Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co, 1979.ISBN 90-277-1009-0
(ed. withLauri Karttunen andArnold M. Zwicky)Natural language parsing: psychological, computational, and theoretical perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
(with Robert E. Wall and Stanley Peters)Introduction to Montague Semantics. Dortrecht, Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co, 1991.ISBN 90-277-1142-9
'Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection'.Language 67:3 (September 1991), pp.547-619
(ed. with Erhard W. Hinrichs andJohn A. Nerbonne)Theory and evidence in semantics. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.

References

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^"Dowty, David R."LC Name Authority File.
^^a ^bErhard Hinrichs; John Nerbonne (2009)."Introducing Theory and Evidence in Semantics"(PDF). In Erhard Hinrichs; John Nerbonne (eds.).Theory and Evidence in Semantics. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 3–4.